Rising to Power
The Journey of Exceptional Executives
by Ron A. Carucci, Eric C. Hansen
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Pub Date Sep 23 2014 | Archive Date Nov 07 2014
Greenleaf Book Group | Greenleaf Book Group Press
Description
Rising to Power is a time tested, wisdom-packed guide for executives desiring to be exceptional leaders as they navigate their ascent to the highest levels of their organization.
Nearly two-thirds of all leaders entering executive roles lack sufficient understanding of what is required and are unprepared for what they will face, which explains why 50 percent of them fail within the first eighteen months.
For decades we have known that failure rates among transitioning executives are too high, causing exorbitant costs, damaged organizations, and stalled careers. Still, little has changed in the way organizations prepare leaders to assume executive positions. Three-fourths of new executives say their organization did not adequately prepare them for the executive office. It doesn’t have to be this way.
If you are an executive—or you’re aspiring to be one—and considering how you will navigate the ascent in your organization, Rising to Power will serve you like no other resource can. Odds are high you have watched a promising executive fail on their way up. Like many, you scratched your head, wondering, “Why didn’t they see that coming?” Now you’re hoping not to be the next one that falls. Rising to Power will guide you on a predictable journey of ascent, through the transitional moments and issues most common in executive failure. It will bolster your confidence, open your eyes, deepen your insight, and if you let it, reveal your own proclivities for failure that you may not even recognize. Based on a ten-year longitudinal study, Rising to Power offers a profoundly new way of looking at an executive’s rise in an organization, and offers an approach to significantly increase your odds of success.
Nearly two-thirds of all leaders entering executive roles lack sufficient understanding of what is required and are unprepared for what they will face, which explains why 50 percent of them fail within the first eighteen months.
For decades we have known that failure rates among transitioning executives are too high, causing exorbitant costs, damaged organizations, and stalled careers. Still, little has changed in the way organizations prepare leaders to assume executive positions. Three-fourths of new executives say their organization did not adequately prepare them for the executive office. It doesn’t have to be this way.
If you are an executive—or you’re aspiring to be one—and considering how you will navigate the ascent in your organization, Rising to Power will serve you like no other resource can. Odds are high you have watched a promising executive fail on their way up. Like many, you scratched your head, wondering, “Why didn’t they see that coming?” Now you’re hoping not to be the next one that falls. Rising to Power will guide you on a predictable journey of ascent, through the transitional moments and issues most common in executive failure. It will bolster your confidence, open your eyes, deepen your insight, and if you let it, reveal your own proclivities for failure that you may not even recognize. Based on a ten-year longitudinal study, Rising to Power offers a profoundly new way of looking at an executive’s rise in an organization, and offers an approach to significantly increase your odds of success.
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Advance Praise
Boasting a prestigious list of clients including Fortune 50 companies as
well as authorship of some seven books, former organization development
professor (Fordham Univ.) and seasoned consultant Carucci joins with
experienced executive and fellow consultant Hansen in producing a guide
for rising executives. Their stated purpose is to diminish the ''growing
disconnect between readiness and expectation among new executives'' and
to identify for organizations ''mechanisms required to multiply and
unleash executive capacity.'' Skills and traits for successful
transition that have been distilled into categories termed Breadth,
Choice, Context, and Connection were derived from text analysis of
survey responses from over 100 executives, with increasing company stock
price as the criterion for executive success. Well-worn advice about
demolishing silos, cultivating 360-degree information networks,
building mutual trust, setting priorities, strategic decision making,
openness to innovation, problem solving, and developing extensive
knowledge about one's company and industry is mingled with admonishments
to use one's power for good and to create an organization that fosters
joy and loves fully engaged employees back. The takeaway is that since
ascent to power can't be separated from personal sacrifice, occasional
setbacks, and relinquishment of many characteristics and behaviors
heretofore associated with success, a upcoming executive should hold
fast to the vision of lasting success that can be achieved under his or
her leadership. ---Library Journal Review
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